Toxins and Autism: Typical Shill Misdirection from NYTimes Nick Kristoff

Note the elements of this piece from Kristoff:
1) toxins cause autism (note the gratuitous swipe at non-"experts")
2) the idea that vaccines can cause autism has been debunked
3) mercury (in a list with other known agents) is a toxin

What Kristoff neglects to say, of course, is that mercury is often in vaccines!

So, in a typical shill manner, Kristoff has contradicted himself, while acting as an authority and disparaging conspiracy theories about vaccines.